Meanings of omphalos in English

Paris to Venice Paris is the omphalos of Europe's night train services.

Delphi was called the omphalos or navel of the world, marked by a shapeless holy stone.

The Delphic omphalos-stone was cone, womb, and beehive.

He would certainly-thoughSir Thomas Browne denied it-displayan 'omphalos', yet no umbilical cord had ever attached him to a mother.

Time and again, in particular, I encountered two memories bright as sunlight in my mind, guarding the passage to and from that dark omphalos.

In fact, Gosse started to more formally organize his anti-evolutionary ideas shortly before Omphalos.

Neither theory attempts to solve this riddle, nor yet the riddle of the Omphalos.

That Gosse published Omphalos two years before On the Origin of Species was no accident.

But the girls do, cute little innies-andShip does as well, a truly whopping Omphalos.

Without a doubt, Philip Henry Gosse's Omphalos is one of the strangest books I have ever read.

Cornelia saw half-naked Numidian footmen thrusting back the crowd that bustled in the Omphalos-thegreat square where the two highroads met.

He wrote a book called Omphalos (Greek for navel), subtitled An Attempt to Undo the Geological Knot, in 1857.

In his work entitled Omphalos he developed the theory previously urged by Granville Penn, and asserted a new principle called "prochronism."

Classic readers will at once call to mind the appellation Omphalos or navel applied to the temple at Delphi (Pindar, Pyth., iv.